Oh - nth generation NTSC tapes with the whacked out colours! We watched all of Oz weirdly insulated from the violence because all the blood was green...
Hee! It's the reverse of what early Professionals tapes looked like in the States; after conversion from PAL to NTSC and nth-generation copying, you were lucky to see anything at all.
My run of The Sentinel was posted to me in a box that had a fruit-themed contact (sticky plastic) on it and I had to beg quarantine not to destroy my tapes...
Oh, man. I don't think "make sure it doesn't look like perishables" ever went into the general "how to ship things overseas" directions that always seemed to be floating around, but I do remember "mark it as a gift, worth $10, no matter what it is" to try to stave off merchandise fees at various countries' Customs counters.
Which was great training, as I still do that today. *g*
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Hee! It's the reverse of what early Professionals tapes looked like in the States; after conversion from PAL to NTSC and nth-generation copying, you were lucky to see anything at all.
My run of The Sentinel was posted to me in a box that had a fruit-themed contact (sticky plastic) on it and I had to beg quarantine not to destroy my tapes...
Oh, man. I don't think "make sure it doesn't look like perishables" ever went into the general "how to ship things overseas" directions that always seemed to be floating around, but I do remember "mark it as a gift, worth $10, no matter what it is" to try to stave off merchandise fees at various countries' Customs counters.
Which was great training, as I still do that today. *g*